A Year of Reading

I had the opportunity to talk with Kevin Hodgson about technology in the Writing Workshop recently. The podcast is up at Choice Literacy thi...

CAKE-KU Planet on a stick, I orbit, hungry -- a drooling comet. © Mary Lee Hahn Poem #13, National Poetry Month 2012 T...

I've Lost My Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic Greenwillow Books, 2012 review copy provided by the ...

DECLARATION I am sky, background for your silhouette. We are trees, earthbound artists of form and substance. © Mary Lee H...

I've still got a handful of readers in my fourth grade classroom who are reading beginning chapter books. As long as these books are wh...

CHILDHOOD Scab -- pick it. Booger -- flick it. Penny -- find it. Kite string -- wind it. Horse -- pretend it. Fort --...

WHY TAI CHI? Tai Chi is a deliberate dance, both solitary and in tandem. It is a chorus sung with body instead of voice. You a...

Years and years ago, I realized I didn't have a great poetry collection in my classroom.  So, I decided that year to really focus on onl...

LOOK DOWN Tree stump and mushrooms -- two speckled brown and gold discs. Forest floor surprise. © Mary Lee Hahn, 2012 ...

Thanks to Jen and Kellee at TEACH MENTOR TEXTS for organizing IT'S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING? Go visit their blog for more posts! ...